Coin-holding card.



No. 673,299. Patented Apr. 30, |90I.

J. N. SPIES.

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(Application led Dec. 15, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN NELSON SPIES, OF WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.

COIN-HOLDING CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 673,299, dated April30, 1901. Application led December 15, 1900. Serial No. 40,046. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN NELSON SPIEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Holding Cards;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification. p

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in coin-holdingcards, and especially to the provision of a card having a series ofapertures of various sizes corresponding to the outline of various coinsto receive the coins, said cards being preferably of a thickness equalto or greater than the thickness of the coins to avoid their detectionwhen sent through the mails, and the provision of means for retainingthe coins in place in the apertures, consisting of flexible strips whichform a portion of the Gard and extending across the apertures andslightly beyond the margins of the latter.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisapplication, and in which drawings similar letters of reference indicatelike parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure l is a planview ot' my improved coin-holding card. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinalsection through the card, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view showingone of the flexible coin-holding straps slightly sprung Out.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a card, made, preferably, of cardboard, having a series ofoval recesses B cut therein, said recesses or apertures being arrangedin pairs and of different sizes, the outer curved margips of each pairof apertures being in the arc of the same circle and each pair being ofsuch a size as to correspond with the size of a particular coin which isto be held in the card by the curved walls of said apertures. ratingeach pair of recesses is a flexible strip O, forming'a part of thecardboard, and in order to make said strips sufficiently iiexible tohold the coin in place and to make room to receive the coin each stripor strap O eX- tends beyond the marginal edges of the recesses on eitherside, as shown, so that the strap may spring out beyond the face of thecard at the ends of the apertures, as plainly shown in the detail viewin the drawings.

To the under surface of the card is secured a paper D, covering theapertures and forming a bottom on which the coins may rest.

In applying the coin or placing saine in the apertures the strap issprung out and the coin slipped under same, and the curved outlines ofthe apertures will hold the coin from a lateral play, while the liexiblestrap will serve to hold the coin from movement in the oppositedirection. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isw

A coin-holding card, having a series of recesses arranged in pairs, thecurved margins of each pair of recesses being on the arc of the samecircle, liexible straps between each pair of recesses integral with thecard, and extending beyond the opposite ends of the recesses, andalternately arranged in parallel rows, with their inner ends adjacent tothe longitudinal median line of the board, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN NELSON SPIES. Witnesses:

G. E. BEECHER, E. C. BALDWIN.

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